People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade; I. I. Radchenko

You have been informed by Kashirstroy that on the steamship "Frida Horn," stuck in ice near Petrograd, there are 110 crates of insulators for the power transmission line Kashira—Moscow. Urgently report what measures you have taken to remove these crates from the steamship and to forward them to Kashira. Furthermore, according to Kashirstroy's report, outside the borders of Russia there are 11,900 insulators sent on 7/XI from the Rosenthal factory. Taking into account the incident with the steamship "Frida Horn," it is necessary even now to concern ourselves with a new route for dispatching these insulators, and, as the most reliable method, they must be sent by rail with an escort to Moscow and the insulators handed over with a receipt to the Kashirstroy office: Maly Cherkassky, Kalyazinskoye Podvorie, Kashirstroy. Report immediately to comrade Smolyaniov541 on the measures taken and the results.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence Lenin

Moscow — Kremlin,

2/12 — 21

First printed in 1933
in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the typewritten
text signed by
V. I. Lenin

TO N. P. GORBUNOV, V. A. SMOLYANIOV. 17 DECEMBER 1921

TO N. OSINSKY*

People's Commissariat of Agriculture, Comrade Osinsky

I ask you to give me the briefest possible answers — one or at most two pages in total — to certain questions so that I might more accurately set forth the corresponding sections of my report to the Congress of Soviets and insert some of the most indicative figures.

Could you not provide me for my report to the Congress of Soviets with two or three summary figures: 1) our fulfillment of the supply of seed materials to the peasants for autumn 1921; 2) On any other tangible results and successes already evident in 1921. Should we not mention seed farms (Shatilovskoe and others, etc.) or breeding and something of that sort?

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin